Montclair Academy of Dance and Laboratory of Music and Drama
Montclair Creative HUB for DANCE, DRAMA, DRUMMING and FILM PRODUCTION.
We educate students ages 3 through 18 and adults
Discover creativity and self-expression Develop critical thinking and technique
Demonstrate talent and confidence
Ballet, Modern dance • choreography • Acting, drama • African drumming • poetry, play writing • video • film
Registering now for 2025/2026!
Registering now for 2025/2026!
We follow Howard Gardner’s theory of “Multiple Intelligences” and collaborative work of Reggie Workman and Maya Milenovic.
“Music is the healing force
of the universe.”
— Albert Ayler
Dance
choreography • improvisation • modern • ballet
The Musical Crusade
of Reggie Workman
Documentary
coming 2025
Drama
acting • playwriting • film
Drumming
African drumming • dkembe • dundun
“The process of finding the origin of images and ideas in any of the different areas of arts acquires new meaning!”
As a collaborative team Reggie Workman and Maya Milenovic, the “co-founding heart of MaDLOM”, since 1998, have lately created, “Dos Worlds”, “Ophelia’s Ocean”, “Pulling”, lectures and discussions about jazz, and contemporary arts, improvised dance & theater. For their creatve collaborations, they have received a Guggenheim fellowship.
“I have been a lifelong Madlom member. Aside from instilling a love for music in me, Madlom has made me a more confident, kind, and caring person. I know to take those traits and drumming with me wherever I go.”
— Grant Burroughs, Madlom student from the age of 5